New Year's Resolutions

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ben Blaney

Do you do detectives? If so, any of the "Rebus" novels by Ian Rankin.
Except "Resurrection Men", which wasn't one of the best.

A Star Called Henry - Roddy Doyle
Round The Bend - Nevil Shute

I've got "The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency" by Alexander McCall
Smith on the "to read" pile ATM. It comes highly recommended.

Non-fiction:

Enigma - Hugh Sebag-Montefiore
Longitude - Dava Sobel
Backroom Boys - Francis Spufford
The Fever Trail - Mark Honigsbaum

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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Simon Atkinson

Not as good as "Biggles In Australia", which I came across in a
second-hand bookshop a while back, and couldn't resist buying.

By Christ, but those books were *astonishingly* racist.

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Champ emerged from their own little world to say

Especially if they get it on prescription and therefore take clean,
measured doses.

 

Oddly I'm having a bit of a cleansing of old shite at the moment and
found about 30 Biggles books in a box in the garage.

I started to read a couple, but got a bit fed up. In Biggles in Africa
he beat up a 'native' for being cheeky to him... Those were the days...

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Simon Atkinson

True. He was always better when downing the beastly Hun. I always liked
the bit where he set his teeth and growled "I'm going to get you, you
filthy swine!".

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True enough.

Old Von Stalhein was always popping up somewhere wasn't he?

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

Not really. I was always more interested in the aeroplanes.

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I suspect that Ben may be already somewhat au fait with the work in
question.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Bear

http://www.tdmsoftware.com/majewski/rcstuff/bugattiinfo.html

What's to worry about?

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Might not be instantly addictive for some, but from personal experience
I can tell you the second time I tried it nasally, I didn't get anything
like the effect I got the first time.

I can see how many people are always chasing the first hit - that way
lies the road to addiction.

I've not bothered my arse with it since. Even speed palled after a
while; generally feeling shite is enough to put you off. Fortunately, I
seem to have a built-in aversion therapy for these things, given that I
feel shite for days afterwards and the memory of that is greater than
the euphoria of the actual drug.



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Dave

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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Oh, I dunno... if you meet a nice little Vixen...

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Nigel Eaton wrote

My school library had the complete set. Considered appropriate reading
for any properly brought up young lad they were and I went to a *very*
progressive technical school.

 

My prep school had them all as well. They were considered what we'd call
"politically correct" now, which is a bit of a laugh when you think
about it.

 

Neither's nicotin.

Indeed. Just like alcohol and fags, really, if somewhat more
expensive...

 

You've cut down on the booze, then? Or is it just that you sleep
later?

Tell us something we didn't know.

 

But isn't that the case with anything. It's a fact of like that you
can only experience something for the first time once...
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Please add "imo" to above post.
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For christ sake don't get him started on manatees.
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Please add "imo" to above post.
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Read a couple of Howard Jacobson books recently. Rather literate, and
might be up your street. "Coming from Behind" was his first novel,
and I quite enjoyed it, but "Who's Sorry Now" is his most recent in
paperback, and a fair bit more involved.

I also read "The Wasp Factory" recently (having read most of Banks
other non-M work, I thought I'd better read the first one). I was
amused that some of the reviews included in the opening pages were
very negative. Anyway - kolly good, and if it wasn't actually
disturbing, it was certainly somewhat disquieting.
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Please add "imo" to above post.
Champ
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heh. It was while you were away. Nigel opined that if he'd had
enough to drink, he wouldn't necessarily rule one out.
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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

Drink was never mentioned, IIRC.

A long sea voyage (a *very* long sea voyage) was.

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